Bus in Chinese
bus · HSK 2
公交车
- 公 public
- 交 to hand over
- 车 car
Counted with 辆: 一辆公交车
我们坐公交车去吧。 Let's take the bus there.
Other ways to say bus
More words with 公 or 交 or 车
How do you say bus in Chinese?
Bus in Chinese is 公交车 (gōng jiāo chē). You can also say 客车 (kè chē).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.